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Greggs is to close all its in-store bakeries and produce its pasties and pies
from large regional centres as part of a plan to cut more than 400 staff.

The retailer said that on-site bakeries at 79 of its 1,671 branches were a
legacy from earlier business acquisitions and that it was now more efficient
to supply through a bakery network. It said that 300 people would lose their
jobs as a result.

It intends to cull a further 110 managerial and “support team” posts as part
of a restructuring programme that it already credits with helping to drive a